Steven P. Sanderson II, MPH

Thank god glorious leader got this

Need code coloring in Rmd files in Positron

In #Positron does anyone know how to get code coloring to work? Mine shows up white when in source and I don't like it.

#Positron #Rmd #CodeColor

I for one think that this paper has the right context, namely that LLM culture would benefit from SLM and treat LLM's as micro-services.

arxiv: arxiv.org/html/2506.02...

Today is my annual reminder that read_csv() is vectorized and you can just pass a vector of file paths and it will read and append the datasets.

No need to use map or for loops to read in multiple files.

#rstats

Today's #Python article is on Debugging. I'm learning as I write so, have a heart :) Post: https://www.spsanderson.com/steveondata/posts/2025-08-06/ #Python #Debugging #Blog #Technology #Learning

Today's #Python article is on Debugging. I'm learning as I write so, have a heart :)

Post: www.spsanderson.com/steveondata/...

#Python #Debugging #Blog #Technology #Learning

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It’s highly effective

YouTube video by DW News Anne Applebaum: 'The West doesn't understand the extremism of Putinism' | DW News

At about 15:00. The goal is to promote cynicism, nihilism, apathy, dislike of the establishment.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm_R...

We live in a dictatorship now end of line

Current administration doesn’t want there to be a reliance on the BLS or them having any credibility whatsoever. The current administration wants predominantly most of the existing departments to be rendered ineffective, neutered or untrustworthy.

Forget code generation - use ChatGPT as an intelligent tutor to learn skills that persist. I based this experiment on academic research about learning. It was super fun, & I was genuinely surprised by how effective it was.

🔗 Write-up here: niccrane.com/posts/llms_f...

#rstats #llms #ai #chatgpt

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I think the rendering engine got confused, the editor was fine, but when the .qmd was rendered that extra line was added.

Says the guy that was just approved insane compensation:

www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

Relic not in code file.

Must be some weird relic because it's not in my code file:

yes!! I forget about that one all the time.

Maybe s nice way will come to positron

How to Retrieve Row Numbers in R: Complete Guide with Base R, dplyr, and data.table Examples – Steve’s Data Tips and Tricks Learn how to get row numbers in R with clear examples in base R, dplyr, and data.table for efficient data manipulation and grouping.

Today's post is on finding row numbers of a data.frame in #R

Post: www.spsanderson.com/steveondata/...

#RStats #R #Blog #Code

I need to build the package i created and maintain often

How do you build r packages in it? And document? I like the buttons to do it in rstudio

Yes!!!! I forgot about this one

They won’t do anything, too many are in the power train and not enough is harming across the aisle either

I’ll reread it tonight

tlang is coming at some point, going to take a bit but my mind has been piqued.

#TLang

The goal really is to provide a high level language that reuse as much as possible what is out there, and only the best parts. Arrow, tidyverse, gramar of graphics, Nix for pkg management....

The firings will continue until the numbers improve

General statistics patton

screenshot of the Wikipedia entry for the Nixon Jew count, which reads as follows: The "Nixon Jew count" of July 1971 is the name given to then-President of the United States Richard Nixon's attempts to demote and remove Jews from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

54 years ago...

GitHub - alejandrohagan/fpaR: Collection of functions for common business intelligence related analysis Collection of functions for common business intelligence related analysis - alejandrohagan/fpaR

two weeks away from going back to my side #rstats project

github.com/alejandrohag...

I forgot CRAN is on vacation until mid august…submit again then.

It seems to me that there is a common denominator in all the problems and its #DonaldTrump our glorious 1984 #Dictator in a sweet hue of orange.